Creativity and Executive Functions in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
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| Title: | Creativity and Executive Functions in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Anamaria-Madalina Sabou, Cristina Anamaria Costescu |
| Source: | Acta Didactica Napocensia. 2025 18(2):126-137. |
| Availability: | Babes-Bolyai University. Kogainiceanu 1, Cluj-Napoca, 400084 Romania. e-mail: submit_adn@yahoo.com; Web site: http://adn.teaching.ro |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 12 |
| Publication Date: | 2025 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Descriptors: | Creativity, Executive Function, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Young Children, Visual Perception, Attention, Freehand Drawing, Naming, Comprehension, Verbal Communication, Correlation, Foreign Countries |
| Geographic Terms: | Romania |
| ISSN: | 2065-1430 |
| Abstract: | Creativity is a key skill in child development, whether we are referring to socio-emotional, communication, or academic skills. Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) exhibit an atypical creativity profile, with a series of deficits in cognitive flexibility and fluency, while attention to detail, for example, is highly developed. The relationship between creativity and executive functions that could impact how children with ASD express their creativity has been little explored. In our study, which is based on eight case studies, we set out to investigate the types of creativity (verbal/figural) and examine the extent to which they are affected: rapid naming, understanding instructions, drawing fluency, and visual attention in children with autism aged 4-7 years. We also sought to identify the extent to which there is a relationship between components in the visual attention, drawing fluency and figural creativity, and between components in rapid naming, understanding instructions and verbal creativity. The results showed a distinctive profile of creativity and executive functions across participants. However, our study showed better figural creativity compared to verbal creativity and a link between visual attention, drawing fluency, and figural creativity, as well as between understanding complex instructions and verbal creativity in most participants. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2026 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1494650 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | Creativity is a key skill in child development, whether we are referring to socio-emotional, communication, or academic skills. Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) exhibit an atypical creativity profile, with a series of deficits in cognitive flexibility and fluency, while attention to detail, for example, is highly developed. The relationship between creativity and executive functions that could impact how children with ASD express their creativity has been little explored. In our study, which is based on eight case studies, we set out to investigate the types of creativity (verbal/figural) and examine the extent to which they are affected: rapid naming, understanding instructions, drawing fluency, and visual attention in children with autism aged 4-7 years. We also sought to identify the extent to which there is a relationship between components in the visual attention, drawing fluency and figural creativity, and between components in rapid naming, understanding instructions and verbal creativity. The results showed a distinctive profile of creativity and executive functions across participants. However, our study showed better figural creativity compared to verbal creativity and a link between visual attention, drawing fluency, and figural creativity, as well as between understanding complex instructions and verbal creativity in most participants. |
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| ISSN: | 2065-1430 |
